Articles tagged ‘Concept Check Questions’
What’s Involved In Planning A Lesson?
By Katie | December 10th, 2007 |
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Start here for the background please.
Vocabulary can be considered a lesson of its own: see how to teach a box of words (coming soon!)
I’d start by deciding what I’d cover and what my aims were. When you are working with a syllabus / from a book, this is pretty straightforward.
I would read the text [...]
Is This A Concept Check Question?
By Katie | January 20th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Learning how to ask concept-check questions was one of the most useful parts of my TEFL training – and I still use them today.
You can use these questions to check that your students understand some term or structure without being relegated to “Do you understand?” or “What does this mean?”
Different teachers use them in different [...]
Concept Check Questions From “Modern English Teacher”
By Katie | January 20th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Paul Bress writes about concept check questions in the January 2005 issue of Modern English Teacher.
He identifies the positive points about concept check questions as A) they help the teacher think about the meaning of the target term more carefully, B) they get students to focus on this meaning, and, C) if they are used [...]
